William Lloyd Garrison And The Abolition Movement

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William Lloyd Garrison was an American abolitionist and journalist who was considered to be extremely radical at the time. Garrison’s first experience with the abolition movement occurred when he was 25 years old, when he became part of the American Colonization Society. This group believed that slaves should have been freed but should not have been allowed to stay on American soil, but rather be transported to Liberia. In 1830, Garrison became co-editor of a newspaper called The Genius of Universal Emancipation along with his colleague Benjamin Lundy. After disagreeing with how Lundy felt abolition should have been achieved, Garrison went on to start his own paper, The Liberator. Garrison would often express his belief that only immediate